Leave it to my blog-pal Piper to roust me out of the too-much-working, non-blogging malaise I’ve been experiencing lately by tagging me with one of his ever-loving movie memes. What a rascal!
In Lazy Eye Theatre’s 12 Movies Meme, Piper challenges me and a handful of others to program two weeks’ worth of movies if we [...]

Vote first. Ask questions later. Here’s a delightful distraction for a slow afternoon:

(via YBNBY)

This isn’t a meme and it’s not a blogathon – yet it certainly owes its conventions to both of those. What I’d like to suggest here is to play a little game of something similar to what used to be called “Telephone“.
And what the hell, let’s call it Blogophone.
Here’s the idea: there will be a [...]

Last month I speculated about the progression of John McClane’s abilities to face down increasingly insurmountable obstacles over the course of four Die Hard movies. What inspired my rant was a particularly ridiculous screenshot that I had grabbed from one of the theatrical trailers for this summer’s Live Free Or Die Hard.
That still, in which [...]

I don’t know about you, but I was always a John McClane fan, right from the very beginning – the very day – when I left the theater in that hot July of 1988 in Upstate New York. I was hooked and forever changed. The seeds that Star Wars and Raiders had planted in me [...]

Today The Watercooler blog is featuring the so-idiotic-it’s-both-hilarious-and-sad video below in which all of the censored language dubs from the televised version of Die Hard 2 have been edited together for your amusement. DVDGuy at Watercooler smartly points out that whoever has dubbed Bruce Willis’ dialogue in this version has likely 1) never attended an [...]

Chud.com has your first outside-the-movie-theater look at the Live Free or Die Hard teaser that’s supposed to run this weekend in front of Eragon or some other such. Enough talk – start the blowing-shit-up part!(click the picture or here)
This is clearly an early teaser with temporary special effects and not much meat on the bone, [...]